 | Charles Howard McIlwain - 1910 - 470 pages
...good eyes to see what Burke in the eighteenth century so clearly saw and so elegantly described, — "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." On the Continent it has never really existed. In the United States it may be doubted whether it has... | |
 | Gerald M. Pomper - 436 pages
...principles and they consist, to quote Burke's famous definition, of "a body of men united for promoting the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." Their public purpose is to present the electorate with alternative sets of policies and, following... | |
 | Gerald L. Curtis - 1988 - 324 pages
...men," in Edmund Burke's famous definition of parties, "united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."34 It is a choice among individual candidates whose appeals are far removed from principles... | |
 | Susan Mendus - 1988 - 280 pages
...to Burke' s classical definition: 'a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours die national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed'. " Such parties, to underline the point, are held together by principles, and their aim is to promote... | |
 | Terence Ball, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson - 1989 - 384 pages
...Hume found so unaccountable are for Burke paradigmatic of party per se. "Party," as Burke defines it, "is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed" (1826: 335). With this the pre-history of party ends and we enter a world recognizably modern and akin... | |
 | David Miller - 1990 - 392 pages
...There is no cause for concern in the case of parties that approximate to Burke's classical definition: 'a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed'.13 Such parties, to underline the point, are held together by principles, and their aim is... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 pages
...his famous definition of "party" in Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770): "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."6 To Burke's mind the "national interest" remains a common object; but, as the phrase "some... | |
 | Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - 1992 - 377 pages
...used in our work in the Burkean sense of "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." 55. Jefferson to Madison, March 1793, Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., Writings, IX, 33-34. 56. See The Defense... | |
 | Detmar Doering - 1990 - 330 pages
...Burke dann den Begriff Part ei: "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."1 Dieser Satz, der die Partei per se im Dienste des Gemeinwohls definiert, ist keineswegs in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 pages
...resolution to stand or fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...impossible to conceive, that any one believes in his own politicks, or thinks them to be of any weight, who refuses to adopt the means of having them reduced... | |
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Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. 
